Producer left behind a career in finance to return to the family grain farm; then he decided to become a chicken farmer
When Cameron Evesque watched the bright lights of Calgary fade in his rear-view mirror in the fall of 2018, he knew he was leaving an established, stable career behind. What he didn’t know was that he was on the road to becoming a chicken farmer. Evesque had risen quickly through the ranks at the Agriculture […] Read moreStories by Joan Mudryk
Chickens move into Alta. long-term care home
The new arrivals roam the enclosed grounds, providing another way for facility staff to engage the 13 current residents
Nestled between rolling grainland and native pasture, far from a major city or town, lies the hamlet of Islay, Alta. There are no stores or services, other than a post office, but there is an assisted living facility that opened in the early 1990s. Like many small communities in Alberta, lack of doctors and rising […] Read more
On-farm hobby turns into business
Alberta beekeepers sell their honey and related products mainly at farmers markets instead of directly to a processor
How does a young woman from the bustling city of Beijing, China, with a population of 21.4 million become a beekeeper near the small village of Paradise Valley, Alta., with a population of 153? Songshan Flint came to Canada to attend the University of Saskatchewan in 2004. “My parents encouraged me to further my education […] Read more
Newspaper centre of farm family life
One of the author’s prized possessions is a metal box in which her mother stored clippings from the Western Producer
I have a longstanding love affair with the Western Producer. The paper started arriving in my family’s mailbox a few years before I was born. I joined the family in the late 1950s, the last of four children. My parents operated a typical mixed farm. The Holstein dairy cows supplemented our income and, as my […] Read more
